Melaine
Melaine was last recorded in 2022, when 7 babies were given it; 2,396 Americans have been recorded with it between 1925 and 2022 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,230 Americans named Melaine and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (93% of everyone recorded); the median is 46 years old and half are between 36 and 55.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Melaine by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Melaine?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,119, in 2022; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
83 babies in 1981, the peak
Melaine peaked in 1981, when 83 girls were given it, #1,468 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 7 | #13,119 | 4.3 |
| 2020 | 5 | #16,695 | 3.1 |
| 2019 | 10 | #10,227 | 6.0 |
| 2018 | 9 | #11,145 | 5.3 |
| 2017 | 8 | #12,378 | 4.6 |
| 2016 | 9 | #11,473 | 5.1 |
| 2015 | 12 | #9,315 | 6.7 |
| 2014 | 9 | #11,620 | 5.0 |
| 2013 | 15 | #8,030 | 8.5 |
| 2012 | 16 | #7,683 | 9.1 |
Every recorded year (79)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 10 | #10,912 | 5.7 |
| 2010 | 11 | #10,239 | 6.2 |
| 2009 | 10 | #11,214 | 5.4 |
| 2008 | 16 | #7,981 | 8.5 |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,584 | 5.7 |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,701 | 6.3 |
| 2005 | 13 | #8,678 | 7.0 |
| 2004 | 13 | #8,563 | 7.1 |
| 2003 | 17 | #6,791 | 9.3 |
| 2002 | 24 | #5,023 | 13.4 |
| 2001 | 16 | #6,857 | 8.9 |
| 2000 | 17 | #6,384 | 9.4 |
| 1999 | 23 | #4,817 | 13.0 |
| 1998 | 18 | #5,725 | 10.2 |
| 1997 | 25 | #4,323 | 14.4 |
| 1996 | 19 | #5,211 | 10.8 |
| 1995 | 18 | #5,356 | 10.2 |
| 1994 | 27 | #3,964 | 15.1 |
| 1993 | 31 | #3,547 | 17.1 |
| 1992 | 43 | #2,806 | 23.3 |
| 1991 | 45 | #2,682 | 24.0 |
| 1990 | 48 | #2,502 | 25.3 |
| 1989 | 47 | #2,461 | 25.5 |
| 1988 | 54 | #2,140 | 30.3 |
| 1987 | 48 | #2,255 | 27.6 |
| 1986 | 65 | #1,780 | 37.9 |
| 1985 | 58 | #1,917 | 33.7 |
| 1984 | 58 | #1,856 | 34.4 |
| 1983 | 59 | #1,807 | 35.3 |
| 1982 | 71 | #1,630 | 41.9 |
| 1981 | 83 | #1,468 | 49.8 |
| 1980 | 81 | #1,488 | 48.8 |
| 1979 | 62 | #1,758 | 38.6 |
| 1978 | 52 | #1,906 | 33.9 |
| 1977 | 76 | #1,458 | 49.6 |
| 1976 | 63 | #1,595 | 43.0 |
| 1975 | 65 | #1,551 | 44.6 |
| 1974 | 66 | #1,496 | 45.0 |
| 1973 | 60 | #1,559 | 41.1 |
| 1972 | 73 | #1,374 | 48.0 |
| 1971 | 60 | #1,592 | 36.1 |
| 1970 | 56 | #1,674 | 32.0 |
| 1969 | 51 | #1,700 | 30.2 |
| 1968 | 51 | #1,618 | 31.1 |
| 1967 | 34 | #2,028 | 20.6 |
| 1966 | 34 | #2,002 | 20.1 |
| 1965 | 25 | #2,447 | 14.2 |
| 1964 | 41 | #1,852 | 21.6 |
| 1963 | 33 | #2,086 | 17.1 |
| 1962 | 31 | #2,142 | 15.8 |
| 1961 | 20 | #2,806 | 9.9 |
| 1960 | 25 | #2,412 | 12.4 |
| 1959 | 24 | #2,375 | 11.9 |
| 1958 | 22 | #2,488 | 10.9 |
| 1957 | 22 | #2,464 | 10.8 |
| 1956 | 27 | #2,135 | 13.4 |
| 1955 | 23 | #2,318 | 11.8 |
| 1954 | 12 | #3,436 | 6.2 |
| 1953 | 7 | #4,882 | 3.7 |
| 1952 | 21 | #2,309 | 11.3 |
| 1951 | 13 | #3,054 | 7.2 |
| 1949 | 8 | #4,118 | 4.7 |
| 1948 | 10 | #3,512 | 5.9 |
| 1947 | 10 | #3,616 | 5.6 |
| 1946 | 5 | #5,439 | 3.2 |
| 1945 | 7 | #3,905 | 5.4 |
| 1943 | 6 | #4,529 | 4.3 |
| 1928 | 5 | #5,193 | 4.3 |
| 1925 | 5 | #5,515 | 4.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Melaine a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Melaine has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 79 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Melaine: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Melaine, and how old are they?
2,230 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 93% of the 2,396 Americans ever recorded as Melaine. The median Melaine alive today is 46 years old; half are between 36 and 55.
The 2020 Census counted 1,424 people named Melaine (1,418 women and girls, 6 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,262 born in the U.S. The Census count is 37% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 7 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 287 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 848 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 751 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 249 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 83 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Melaine born?
The states with the most babies named Melaine are California, New York and Texas, with 73% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 118 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| New York | 95 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Texas | 79 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Florida | 26 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Georgia | 22 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Pennsylvania | 15 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| New Jersey | 11 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Ohio | 11 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Colorado | 6 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Alabama | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Melaine with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 313,099 babies since 1880, Melaine is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 3,539 babies recorded by SSA was a Melaine (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Melaine
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Melaine and names like it
- Compare Melaine and MelanieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sMelaine peaked in 1981.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Melaine since 1910.
- The top names of 1981The year the most babies were named Melaine.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Melaine alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with MMost given first.